I’ve noticed that there seems to be an emphasis on being extremely serious at all times, as if every single comment is a PhD dissertation being evaluated or something. There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental. It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?
I dug through the replies I’ve gotten. They’ve either deleted their account/comment or I can’t find it. It was weird though. Iirc it was called something like voluntary no contact but I’m sure I’m getting the name wrong. It was really entitled sounding. Basically boiled down to, “I’m not going to block you but I want you to make effort to remember my user name and not talk to me (or my son) ever again.”
I use the Voyager app and it allows me to tag user names so that I can avoid blocking the borderline cases. I don’t mind people who are having a bad day or are just cranky, or maybe have attitudes I find annoying but not fully disturbing. I will of course block extremist authoritarians and such.
Since it’s a smallish social media community, I don’t really want to block all the discomfort away.
If I know what to expect from someone’s posts, it’s more entertaining than jarring when someone is being abrasive, and it helps me interject if things get out of hand.
I like that Lemmy/piefed is topic oriented, and not nearly as emotional as a microblogging space like mastodon, which is full of personal branding and ego and frequent annoyance at discussion when all someone wanted to do was make a posturing statement without friction or the jostle of other egos.
wow that’s weird! there are a couple prolific posters on here that I very seriously suspect have some flavor of schizo-effective something or other (IANAD etc but the paranoid barely coherent rants are familiar having known a handful of people with it) I wonder if you might have come across one of them
Oh I wouldn’t doubt it. I’ve come across several people that are morbidly fascinating. The screws aren’t just loose, they are missing and bailng wire is being applied.